Delaware General Assembly

Passed 6/18/26

HS 1 for HB 320 w/ HA 1

6/18/26

Osienski

This Amendment corrects a grammatical error in Section 18 of Article I of the Delaware Constitution by adding "a" between "in" and "manner". At the Constitutional Convention of 1897, the Committee of the Whole adopted the phrase “in a manner”, which was consistent with previous versions of this Section that appeared in the 1792 and 1831 versions of the Delaware Constitution. However, when Section 18 of Article I was presented to the Convention for final approval, the phrase read “in manner". This error, brought to the attention of Delaware Law Related Education Center by a member of the Delaware Bar, is being documented by a University of Delaware student as an aid for teaching Delaware students about the process of amending their state constitution.

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